i just read about it today, which made me think about a hoax, too. it seems to be a serious thing though, afaik. i don't take their word for the gb of storage but i trust google to create an optimum webmail service

your right... think about it, when people hear about that, I'm pretty sure millions of people will start signing up, they'll even create multiple accounts. So lets say there will be 500 Million accounts, that means Goggle is going to have to spend 500 Million GBs of storage, I don't think any server would be able to handle that much storage :unsure: .

anubis
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2004-04-02T00:52:52Z —
#6

i imagine gmail being used for illegal exchange of files... if i was them i'd put a restriction on the maximum size of a single mail. but seriously, google knows very well that almost nobody on the planet will produce 1gb of mail

Noor
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2004-04-02T01:10:00Z —
#7

but seriously, google knows very well that almost nobody on the planet will produce 1gb of mail

i imagine gmail being used for illegal exchange of files... if i was them i'd put a restriction on the maximum size of a single mail. but seriously, google knows very well that almost nobody on the planet will produce 1gb of mail

thats only you that think that.

if we would not delete our work-mails here, we would have mails of the last three years, going over several gigabytes for some users.

anubis
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2004-04-02T15:15:15Z —
#10

davepermen : no question about that but joe average won't accumulate 1gb of mail

davepermen
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2004-04-02T15:35:41Z —
#11

hehe.. well.. just checked, and got some gigabytes free just by letting 2 (TWO!!) people clean up their mail accounts

anubis
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2004-04-03T11:06:11Z —
#12

i don't even want to know what kind of attachments get passed around in your company

davepermen
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2004-04-04T13:16:34Z —
#13

not really much. just thousands of e-mail..

anubis
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2004-04-04T13:30:41Z —
#14

i doubt that any serious company would use a webmail service...

anubis
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2004-04-08T09:53:30Z —
#15

i knew that there was a catch... google not only plans on letting you search through your mail with google's "advanced" search algorithms but also insert context related ads by analysing your mail with google's "advanced" search algorithms. they wouldn't even be alowed to do that in germany. i spit in google's face for this one